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The Best of Boston — Gauguin, Monet & Sargent
When travelers tell us they plan to spend a week in New York, our initial response is to suggest that a 10-day visit to Boston and New York City would be ideal. For art lovers, Boston is a relaxed place to contemplate “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (shown above), the monumental mural Paul…
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Paris – The 10 Best Art Museums
Within the city limits of Paris, there are around 130 museums. In order to make your journey "magical", we have compiled a short list of the best museums devoted to art and culture in the French capital.
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The Leopold Museum — 3rd Greatest Museum in Vienna
Vienna’s Leopold Museum is the best place to feel the dynamic power of modern Austrian art. Housing around 6,000 works of art — including the world’s most comprehensive collection of the talented, enigmatic Egon Schiele — the Leopold Museum takes you on a journey from the 1860s to the Wiener Secession, through the stylish era of Jugendstil, and into Expressionism.…
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Smaller Can Be Better — Art Venues in Madrid 2022
Sometimes a one-hour visit to a museum fashions the perfect art experience, and one great destination where you may choose to appraise this theory is Madrid. We recently visited three art spaces centrally located in the capital of Spain that offer you surprisingly high-quality alternatives to the Big Three museums… without crowds and highly-priced tickets. Museo Sorolla The Sorolla Museum…
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Klimt + Gold = The Belvedere — 4th Greatest Museum in Vienna
The Belvedere is a building complex in Vienna where two palaces were built in the early eighteenth century and set inside a Baroque park landscape for use as a purely ceremonial summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The Upper Belvedere palace, built between 1717 and 1723, today houses The Belvedere museum — the most visited art museum in…
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Morozov Collection — The Best Art in Paris at Fondation Vuitton
Having viewed all the major exhibitions in Paris during 2021 we feel, without hesitation, your top priority should be to view Icons of Modern Art featuring The Morozov Collection from Russia at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. From September 22, 2021 through April 3, 2022, one may see 200 masterpieces of modern art from the collection of Mikhail and Ivan Morozov…
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Alice Neel in the Guggenheim Bilbao — Astonishing Paintings
The Guggenheim Bilbao describes the painter Alice Neel (1900 — 1984) as “one of the most radical artists of the 20th century.” “A fervent advocate for social justice, humanism, and the dignity of people,” according to the organizers of this career-spanning retrospective, Neel “considered herself a ‘collector of souls’.” When this exhibition entitled Alice Neel: People Come First was presented…
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Thyssen — the Best Museum in Spain
The best museum in Spain is in Madrid and, in our opinion, it is not The Prado. We have compiled a list of the best 10 museums for you to discover and enjoy in Spain; but first allow us to explain why we have chosen the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza as our pick for the #1 museum in Spain. The Thyssen possesses…
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AMSTERDAM MUSEUMS — Enjoy the Best Art in the Netherlands
With its friendly, multi-lingual residents and highly functional transportation options, The Netherlands should be near the top of your list for a perfect get-away in the off-season.
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EXPRESSIONISM – The Best Art on View in Switzerland
Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938) was one of the best painters of her day and a titan of Expressionism. The daughter of a Russian military commander, Marianne was a student of Ilya Repin, the great realist painter. At age 28, her career was hindered by a crippling bullet wound to her right hand during a hunting accident. Marianne met Alexej von…
